Dear Parents,
This week we began our MAP testing in grades 2-8. We experienced the typical growing pains with implementing a new testing protocol and we worked through some challenges with our IT company, but overall it was very successful. We will finish the first round of testing early next week and then work with the students who did not complete their tests. We look forward to the information that this will provide as we move through the school year.
This morning we had a situation that I have not experienced before (at least to the degree that it was today). I was welcoming students on Chevy Chase Parkway. I noticed a back up and went up to the circle. The circle was backed up because of people entering our blacktop. I’ve been here for 15 years and never seen it backed up like that. Please be as expeditious as possible on the blacktop. Pull down PAST the gym doors if you can (this allows more cars in the unloading zone), as soon as you have pulled onto the blacktop and stopped let your children disembark and walk down to the gym (this allows more children to exit each ‘cycle’) and please have your children ready to exit whenever you stop on the blacktop. If we do this, we have a much more efficient carpool and much less traffic on Western. Thank you.
And, in the afternoons, as always, please do not block Western. In the interest of common courtesy and safety for the children, please do not park in the crosswalk on Chevy Chase Parkway at pick up. Please respect our staffs' directives as they are out there to keep your children safe.
Enjoy another spectacular weekend!
Faithfully,
Chris Kelly
